The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-06-23


holding them in the smoke OF coffee
berries burning on hot Goals.
The following recipe has been in use
for more than forty years, and rs said
to be ''she best remedy for looseness
OF the bowels ever devised" II this
remedy is taken in time, cholera need
not be feared. Take equal parts OF
tincture OF iron opium, red pepper,
rhubarb. peppermint and camphor,
and mix them for use. In case OF
diarrhna, take dose OF ten or TWEEN.
ty drops in two or three tablespoon
fulls of water. As the dose is so small
the mixture can be carried in tiny
vial in the waistcoat pocket, and al
ways be at hand.
TIE tulip is very prolific. A cores
pendent OF the Garden, an English
horticultural paper, says that in 1880
he had SO bulbs given HIM, which had
been forced in the spring and placed
out OF doors to dry off. He planted
them in November the same year and
took them up the next June, repeat
ing each year, and now finds himself
the possessor OF more than 5000 good
Towering bulbs.
II benzine will not entirely remove
axle grease or varnish from clothes,
place the soft garment upon a flat
cake OF plaster OF paris or upon some
folds OF blotting paper; moisten it with
sulphuric ether and rub 1T gently with
q soft brush or clean cotton rag. Be
careful only to do this by day, as the
inllammability OF the ether renders it
dangerous to use where there is light
or hot stove.
The brilliant polish put upon collar
and cuffs is made by adding little
spermaceti to the starch and finishing
the ironing with q peculiarly shaped
fiat iron, which has u rounded point.
This is pressed with great force upon
the linen, and rubbed back and forth
until the polish is satisfactory IL is
exceedingly hard work, and no man
should wish woman to injuriously
exert herself in putting this hard fin
ish upon his clothing. In laundres
the work is done by machinery, which
is unobjectionable. 1t is not the prep
aration applied to to the linen, but
the labor and peculiar form OF iron
and the extreme pressure chiefly which
produce the gloss.
KEEP THE Skin CLEAN. The skin is
the principal outlet OF the body.
Four times more matter is carried out
OF the body by the cutaneous surface
every day than by the alimentary
canal 1t is a complete web OF nerves
and blood vessels; its thickly studded
pores constitute the vastest system
OF corporal drainage-twenty- eight
miles OF tubing, seven million pores.
II these become partially closed dis
ease is certain.-Dr. +. G. Welsh, III
Halls Journal OF Health.
To REMOVE COFFEE MILK STAINS.
The Industrie Batter recomends the
use OF glycerine for this purpose. The
silk, wooden, or other fabrick is paint
ed over with glycerine, then washed
with clean linen rag dipped in luke
warm rain water, until clean. 1t is
afterwards pressed on the wrong side
wirh a moderately warm iron as long
as it seems damp. The most delicate
colors are unaffected by this treat
ment.
For light window curtains, materials
are. now in use which give variety to
the old and well-worn imitation laces.
which have so long figured as the
"proper thing" From simple cheese
cloth to Indian silks, one may go
through long list Of materials more
or less expensive, which may be used
with good effect. Linen lawn and
French organdie, with flower figures in
delicate colors, are among the cheaper
materials, ana very effective. Turn
ing to the more expensive materials,
nothing is prettier than o monoch-
rome India silk, which can bear an
embroidered edge or silken fringe OF
the same color. White or cream-white
Chimes Grape with figures is made in
charmingly delicate designs.-Spring-
field Republican.